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The Stout Rifle’s handle is designed such that it will be held in a similar manner as a lance. Solid ammunition is magazine-fed with each magazine holding 30 rounds of high-velocity armor-piercing projectiles while particle ammunition is generated by inbuilt dedicated mini particle turbines. Due to a unique composition of ionized particles generated by the turbines, its charged particle beam is capable of causing a chain reaction upon impact which gradually vaporizes the target surface by dematerializing it into dissipating particles.

Prime incarnations need to have the most powerful weapon it can boot so I took a page out of Halo's Promethean weaponry and Excellen's Oxtongue Rifle

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It's amazing what imagination can come up with when you try to bring technology from multiple universes together ^^

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The sword gun sounds all right. What of the one with multiple swords? How does that would look like?

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The gun scabbard is actually a funny thought. It's a gun, that draws energy from the sword stuck in the scabbard slot. It has capacitors so the two can be used in conjunction but this limits shot numbers. Add to that the possibly awkward ergonomics since I was planning for the trigger to be a detatchable pistol too. Then the imagination completely goes out of whack by making me try and adapt a FN-P90 trigger for the front to keep a sleek look and to allow a dual wield of energy assault rifle and repeater... WTH

An audience of young students in their early teens watches in awe at the firm clashing of two shinai, or bamboo swords. On one side, Tsurugi holds her weapon up with only her right hand while keeping the left behind her waist. The other side is Inami with both hands gripped on his shinai’s hilt, struggling to keep his weapon down against her strength. Unbeknownst to the young teens, the two are actually engaging in a genuine sparring session instead of a mock duel that her mother, Reika told beforehand.

‘Not bad, Ina-kun… So you’ve gotten stronger after all these years…!’

‘As expected from the Katami family’s one-arm sword mastery… But this is definitely not your best effort yet is it, Tsu-chan…?’

Inami pushes down his shinai onto Tsurugi’s, slowly overwhelming her hold until he realizes something is off. As he forces his weapon upon hers, he notices her hand on the shinai’s grip remains firm without any signs of struggling.

‘I knew it!’

At the slightest notice of Tsurugi’s arm about to give way, Inami pulls his shinai away as she pulls hers then whips it back onto him from above. With barely seconds of recovering his grip, Inami swings the shinai directly to his front and blocks her strike. The striking force instantly rattles down his shinai’s bamboo slats, hand-guard and finally the grip where he could literally feel vibrations of her raw strength up to his fingertips.

‘He’s fast! Or did he saw through that…?’

Surprised that Inami is able to block her near-instantaneous whip swing strike, Tsurugi frowns lightly, focusing on his eyes to determine his next target point. Once again, he manages to gradually overpower her and slowly pushing her shinai away.

‘She’s doing it again? No matter, I’ll make use of this chance to—!’

He eyes her left shoulder then pulls his shinai away and over his head, whipping his hands back onto her left opening. Instead of executing a similar whip swing, Tsurugi pulls her right arm back and spins right, bringing her shinai into a full back-hand swing towards Inami’s incoming strike.

*TAK*

Not only does Tsurugi managed to block his strike, she uses the momentum from the spin to force his shinai back towards him, much to his shock. She grows a small smirk noticing his cringe.

‘Betting on the same trick to happen twice… Wrong move, Ina-kun.’

Tsurugi shuffles a step towards Inami, pushing his weapon back with only an arm while he struggles to keep the shinai from leaning towards him. The students are awestruck by her still having enough strength to overwhelm her opponent despite the swift whip strikes which would have taken a great chunk of stamina from an average swordsman. Yet, Inami keeps up with his losing struggle against her overpowering strength, mustering every might to keep the shinai in his grip.

“Onee-sama is winning…!”

Cheers from some of the students, while it certainly does not help Inami’s plight, it pushes Tsurugi to keep forcing him back with seemingly undiminished stamina. Held back into defensive, Inami notices Tsurugi leaning ahead as she continues to overwhelm his stance and her feet are apart. With his shinai already beginning to lean towards him, Inami begins to think of giving way and succumb to her power in which then he realizes an oddity in her stance which leaves her lower body open.

‘Not yet she’s not…’

Inami pushes the grip up, deflecting Tsurugi’s shinai over his head as he dashes under her outstretched right arm and turning his body left. Planting a foot ahead, he springs himself back towards her from the opposite side, swinging his shinai while she spins her body left, whipping her shinai back.

*ksuu—*

“Erk—!”

“Tch…!”

Seemingly petrified in deep shock, the two stands rooted to the ground, frozen in their end stances with their respective shinai held inches away from each other’s necks.

Silence fills the room with Tsurugi’s parents watching them from behind the students, awed by their impressive display of combat. The students suddenly applaud at the two, beaming wide smiles while ecstatically cheering at them.

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For example, I have a design for Second Overshift (Third Shift + Overshift) where the I.S. breach the boundaries between wave and particle.

This is very out of place when everyone else struggling with half-assed packet (Sacred Twins) but not really when damn everyone pull insane technique with filmsy justification for power of love/friendship (The Mirror Verse)

Why does it NOT feel odd to be listening to Por Una Cabeza while imagining a fight scene?

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Anyways, in regards to this Strategic Defense Point 16, where Silver Gospel is stationed... Would it be too far-fetched to assume it's somewhere in Alaska?

Given V6's rather vague(even for secretive's sake) description of it being in "North American Continent, American Northwest".

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